Improvement in carriage-tops



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOHN V. EMMITT, OF STERLING, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-TOPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 200,269, dated February12, 1878 application filed November 26, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN V. EMMITT, of Sterling, in the county ofWhitesides and State of Illinois, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Carriage-Tops, which is fully set forth in theaccompanying drawing.

The invention relates to that class of cheap light carriage-tops orcanopies intended to be used chiefly on the drivers seat on wagons andon the lighter buggies, and which are readily removable.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved method of changingthe position of such top, and fixing the same at different angles, asthe directions of the sun, wind, or ram may require.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of referenceindicate like parts, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention; andFig. 2 is a plan view, showing the jaws B B open.

A is the ordinary standard or post, pivoted, as shown, at its lower end,to which may be attached, in the usual way, the auxiliary bows tosupport the top. The part shown in the drawings is, of course, but oneside or end of the I top, having its counterpart at the other end orside of the seat or buggy, and supporting jointly with such other endthe top or canopy over the seat.

attached to and removed from the drivers seat or buggy-box.

When the jaws are closed a lock, f, hinged, as shown, on the post A, isturned down over both jaws, and holds the same firmly together. When thelock f is turned up, the jaws can be opened and the post A on each sidemoved into the position required, and the jaws are then closed andlocked, as aforesaid.

What I claim is The jaws B B, provided with partitions b, in combinationwith the standard A and lock f, substantially as and for the purposespecified.

JOHN V. EMMITT.

Witnesses O. G. BETTS, A. J. UPHAM.

v B. A. P E. I Boat- Attaching and D hing Apparatus. No. 200,270.Patented Feb. 12, 1 878.

